Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas
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The Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas is a Catholic monastery of Trappists, inaugurated on March 7, 1938, in Tibhirine, close to Médéa, in Algeria.
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Chapel of the Priory of Our Lady of Atlas, Midelt, Morocco.
Christian de Chergé
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Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O, was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed
Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas
…agricultural cooperative to cultivate these lands together. In 1984, monks renounced the status of abbey in order to become an independent priory, and Dom Christian de Chergé was elected prior. On January 26, 1988, the Priory of Our Lady of the Atlas built a monastery annex in Fez, Morocco. When the Algerian Civil War broke…
Father Christian de Chergé tomb in the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas cemetery